Monday, September 29, 2014

Normandy Fahrt Day 3: Omaha Beach

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We spent our third day in France reliving the American experience on Omaha Beach. I felt I knew most of what happened there from endless...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Radio 4 discusses Maths - a poem of bewilderment

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Radio 4 discusses Maths There’s a magic number called e , that has the  power to solve the world’s problems, to be practical in ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Referendum Question - a poem for the aftermath

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Referendum Question Would there have been tears when the old Union died, a bitter mourning for the loss of joyous hope denied? Or ...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

A post-Referendum letter to the 45%

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I'm writing this at the end of the kind of grey day I yesterday remembered from the '80s. It's hard for me to feel the optimism ...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

I voted YES because ...

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By the time I have finished writing this post, the polls will have closed. In fact, I shall shortly stop writing so that I can watch th...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Normandy Fahrt Day 2: Gott hat das letzte wort

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Our first full day begins early. (We soon discover that this will be the norm throughout - brisk breakfasts and trotting toilettes). It i...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Normandy Fahrt: Day 1

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I've been away. And although I've been back for several days now, my days in Normandy are still very much with me - so much so th...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Summer reading

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What have I been reading recently? Nice of you to ask - I have been reading more than I might, because it's been the kind of weather tha...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

A unique privilege

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On the kind of day when I look out at the rain and mist and breathe a prayer of thankfulness that I have no visitors staying, no children ho...
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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Cloudy morning

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I started writing this before the current spell of dry weather, when I was longing for it to look and feel like summer. As the solstice is r...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Time to think ... about Synod

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P's & G's, complete with MDF gallery? By the time I finish writing this, I'm sure everyone else will have moved on. But ...
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Saturday, June 07, 2014

Of fear (with a nod to Bacon)

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Does anyone read Bacon's Essay's in school any more? I doubt it. They don't really strike one as everyday fare for your average...
Sunday, June 01, 2014

Turkish saga - not a Saga holiday

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I'm going to tell you a story. It's a true story, and it's already been told  in the form of a letter to a holiday company, but ...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Exam stress? What exam stress?

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I have a feeling that Scottish school pupils are sitting their English SQA exams today. If not, it was yesterday - we retired teachers bec...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

Cascading across the years ...

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Next week there is to be a meeting in Pitlochry - a Cascade Conversation called Listening across the Spectrum. Cascading I understand - I w...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Luke 10:38

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It is late afternoon. The sun is heading for the rim of hills behind the village. The dust rises from the footfall of the arriving walkers...
Friday, March 28, 2014

The Well

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©Sieger Köder It is a well, God, a pool so dark as to show me only myself. It draws me to look  compels my absorption demands m...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Greylag - a poem out of meditation

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  Eileen Lawrence: Greylag 1978 GREYLAG : watercolour and handmade papers It disturbs me, this feather, plucked from a hurrying g...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Churchgoing, anyone?

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I came across this post in my 'drafts' folder, and had a sudden memory of a Blogger failure which prevented me from posting it. Neve...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Meditation, corncrakes and rattling slates

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People who follow me on Twitter will have realised from my sparse tweets that I've been away. In fact I've been on a 3-day retreat...
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